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- From: chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers)
- Subject: Re: Proof of God's Existence
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- References: <1992Sep1.135132.5195@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> <Btx5E0.2Kw@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Sep3.215253.23999@ttinews.tti.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:51:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep3.215253.23999@ttinews.tti.com> jackson@soldev.tti.com (Dick Jackson) writes:
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- >I know that you prefaced this quote by saying it was not entirely serious,
- >and that the main point of your article lies elsewhere. But if I (as a
- >very amateur voyeur of philosophy) make a corresponding argument but
- >substitute the string FCA (which might stand for first cause agent) for
- >the string God, how would a defender of this argument rebut my claim that
- >I have proved the existence of FCA but that FCA has no other properties of
- >the entity commonly called by many, but not a majority of people, God.
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- That seems about right to me. Here's what the paper has to say:
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- So what is being claimed here, at least, is a sound argument to a
- true conclusion. It is only reasonable to add the usual disclaimers.
- All that the argument seeks to establish is that there is a First
- Cause. Readers will have to join the churches, mosques, temples, or
- cells of their choice to ascertain what other properties, if any,
- God might have.
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- Dave Chalmers (dave@cogsci.indiana.edu)
- Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University.
- "It is not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable."
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